Re: Dpkg in Ocaml
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:15:27AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Now, another problem is that a coq/ocaml solution is something very very
> remote from what debian developpers are used to, and the step to entry
> for people to work on it and do modification and bug fixes (or more
> probably new features, since hopefully there would be no bugs) would be
> quite high.
There is a deeper, fundamental, issue here. The ocaml compiler doesn't
comply with the Debian Free Software Guidelines, it is in the non-free
section. (This library does).
I don't think the Debian developers would be all that keen making the
core Debian package dependent on a non-free tool.
Dave Brown
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